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FEC Slaps Soros Group for Campaign Finance Abuses; Will Media Care
Leftist uber-funder George Soros's group America Coming Together has been slapped with a $775,000 fine by the Federal Election Commission - the third largest fine in FEC history, but really only a minor fine considering the crime.According to the FEC, ACT used tens of millions of dollars of unregulated cash to boost Democratic candidates during the 2004 elections. The Politico reports that,…
Edwards Cuba Stumble Receives Meager Media Attention
Earlier this month, ABC News's Rick Klein reported on the network's "Political Radar" Web site:When an Iowa resident asked former senator John Edwards Thursday whether the United States should follow the Cuban healthcare model, the 2004 vice presidential contender deflected the question by saying he didn't know enough to answer the question.
Bozell Column: Democrats Win Morning Show Primary
Watching network morning show anchors interview the Democratic presidential candidates often makes you wonder if you’ve seen tougher interviews on overnight acne-care infomercials. Their questions are often so simple and promotional that you wish they’d just go ahead and wear their "Hillary!" or "Obama ‘08" buttons on the set. There is no pretense of political balance. They are actively rooting…
Media Still Using Wrong Number for Uninsured
New Census data shows increase in uninsured, yet no distinction made between Americans and non-citizens.
Less Than Half of Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory
Consensus? What consensus? A new survey about to be published by the journal Energy and Environment finds that less than 50 percent of the scientific papers written about climate change since 2004 have endorsed the view that man's activities are causing global warming. Think Katie, Charlie, and Brian will be discussing this tonight? As reported by DailyTech Wednesday (emphasis added…
The 'Petraeus Report' Myth
Democrats in and out of the media are crying foul over what they see as a nefarious Bush White House plot to artificially bump up its standing by rewriting a report from general David Petraeus on the state of things in Iraq. Trouble is, the administration is required by law to write it:In the past few weeks we've heard that the White House won't let Petraeus speak. Then we've heard that he'll…
Paging Michael Moore: Cuba Won't Let Boxing Team Travel to U.S. for Fe
Anyone who follows the MSM knows that Cuba is a virtual paradise. A land of free health care, universal literacy and low infant-mortality rates where, as Andrea Mitchell has explained to us, kids don't care about freedom and the only big problems are those caused by the U.S. Yes, Cuba is the sort of place no one would ever want to leave. Certainly not to go to live in the United States, where…
Gravitas, Anyone? Yahoo Puts Couric Trip to Iraq, Syria Under 'Enterta
"Seriously?!" That's what I thought when I received an e-mail from NewsBusters reader Lori Puente informing me that Yahoo News is listing an article about Katie Couric's upcoming trip to report from Iraq and Syria in the "entertainment news" section. Sure enough, I took a look at Yahoo News and there the headline was: "Katie Couric to report from Iraq, Syria."Given the nature of news on the Web,…
Greenpeace Co-founder Slams DiCaprio’s New Global Warming Film
Here's something you don't see every day: an environmentalist bashing an environmentalist. Yet, such was the case Wednesday when Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, slammed the new Leonardo DiCaprio film "The 11th Hour" as the "latest climate-change rant" representing "another example of anti-forestry scare tactics" which sadly indicated that "we're losing sight of some indisputable…
Suggestion Thread
Interesting stuff coming down the pike soon here...In the mean time, what suggestions would you have for NB now that we have a sufficiently large enough group of readers and commenters?Meetups, conventions, panels, cyberactivism, what?How much time are you able to help us take things to the next level?
Left-Wing Cry of 'Revolution' More than Same Old Song
Calls for societal change show liberals want to overturn the things that made America great.
CNN Peddles Democrat Talking Points on Katrina for Second Straight Day
CNN apparently wants to milk all it can out of the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s strike on the Gulf Coast for the benefit of the Democrats. On Monday’s "The Situation Room," CNN special correspondent Soledad O’Brien’s report juxtaposed a clip of a recent speech by Barack Obama with stock footage of the hurricane’s aftermath. On Tuesday’s "The Situation Room," O’Brien upped the ante in…
MRC's Bozell Hits WaPo Double Standard in Pulling 'Opus' Cartoon
MRC president and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell appeared on the August 29 "Fox & Friends" to discuss the Washington Post's double standards on religious sensitivity. As NewsBusters associate editor Noel Sheppard reported on Sunday, the Post refused to run Berkeley Breathed's August 26 "Opus" cartoon in which flighty recurring character Lola Granola has declared herself a "radical…